What regions of the Milky Way Galaxy are still unexplored? Alpha, Beta, Dominion, Borg... I've heard the galaxy is unimaginably large. Where would you point your starship's bow?
Everything in Delta not in Voyager’s direct path, everything in Gamma not right near the wormhole. I would love it if they did a series that explored the next galaxy over.
If we accept that the Federation is 10,000 light years wide, the majority of even the Alpha and Beta quadrants remain unexplored.
DSC S3 could very well have gone to another galaxy for that truly "unknown" factor. Been nice knowin' ya....not so much.
They were shooting for Spoiler: Where.... Terralysium but rumors say they Spoiler: ...but... ended up somewhere else altogether We know from photos Michael ended up Spoiler: ...and somewhere else on her own
Illustrated quite well by maps such as this one: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6e/c1/c8/6ec1c81c0016881468886b5bbccb7fa7.jpg
This. I feel like there have been mentions of fractions of the galaxy explored that are about 20% or so. That was Next Generation so before Voyager or The wormhole but at best we would still be below 30% explored is my guess with Voyager trying to get home and just some poking about and a little trade through the wormhole so little reason to be bored with the Milky Way and other than Magellanic Clouds galaxies are too far as we are I suppose still decades at warp 9.9 from Andromeda.
It can be right in the "neighborhood" and be brilliant or beyond the cosmic horizon and be complete rubbish. It is always about the stories and the performances working in Roddenberry' s framework. I think all we need is to really be humming is get back to exploration both in a meta way of humanity and also in the environment it plays out in as the entertainment vehicle to present it.
I'd say that more than 80% of the galaxy remains unexplored. That has potential for a lot of storytelling and adventure, if the writers choose to mine it.
In All Good Things didn't they quote 19% had been explored? Which was up from like 13% in Encounter at Farpoint? So 20 years later I would estimate it more around 25-30%, factoring in some time lost from recovering from the war.
They don't mention a percentage in "Encounter at Farpoint" or "All Good Things". They do mention a percentage in "The Dauphin", a second season episode. Wesley has a crush on a teenage girl who's soon to be ruler of a world, then takes her out to the holodeck, and tells her the Federation has only explored 19% of the galaxy.
I know in one of those episodes, Q says "You have only explored this percent of your own galaxy". Unless I'm completely misremembering the quote.
If the galaxy is 100,000 light years across, at warp speed, how long does it take to go from one end to the other?